I was quite surprised to find this very small pipewort added to the database this week. The plant is only about 10 cm or less tall in fl...Read Moreower, and each flower head is only 3 to 4 mm across. The leaves are so small as to look like a dark bluish-green clump of moss. I described this new species in 1993, based on seeing it at about 10 sites in the central Florida panhandle, where it is hundreds of miles south of its nearest relative (Eriocaulon aquaticum - sometimes referred to as E. pellucidum or E. septangulare). To my knowledge it has never been cultivated by anyone.
I was quite surprised to find this very small pipewort added to the database this week. The plant is only about 10 cm or less tall in fl...Read More
This rare pipewort is endemic to seepage bogs of Bay, Calhoun, Gulf Counties.
FL - endangered